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Immigrants -- Utah

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Ellen Wright Jackson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340645]
Identifier: MSS 2479
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ellen Wright was born in England 1836. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah, settled in American Fork, married William Wally Jackson in 1854, and died in 1904.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography of Herbert Bate

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338011]
Identifier: MSS 2754
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Herbert Bate was born in 1844 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1859 and settled in American Fork. He married Jane Dunn Shelley.

Dates: 1956

Biography of John and Martha Parker Proctor

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338540]
Identifier: MSS 2813
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Proctor was born in England in 1822, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah. Martha Parker Proctor was born in 1825 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah. John died in 1890 and Marha died in 1910.

Dates: approximately 1958

Biography of Martha Bush Roberts

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338441]
Identifier: MSS 2815
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Martha Bush was born in 1843 in England. Her family had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they migrated to Utah with Martha in 1866. Martha married John Benjamin Roberts in 1867 in American Fork, Utah. She died in 1931.

Dates: approximately 1958

Biography of Mary Ann Covington Stratton West

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338425]
Identifier: MSS 2817
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a tyewritten biography. Mary Ann Covington was born in 1815 in England, and she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. She emigrated to Utah in 1847 in the company of her husband, Joseph Albert Stratton. Her husband died in 1850, and she married Chauncey Walker West in 1852. She had no children and died in 1908.

Dates: approximately 1958

Biography of Sarah Eckersley Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340629]
Identifier: MSS 2482
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Sarah Eckersley was born in 1844 in England and migrated with her family to Utah in 1853 where she settled in American Fork. She married William Walker Robinson and died in 1929.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography of William Grant, pioneer : came to Utah 1866 in Captain White's company

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340546]
Identifier: MSS 2489
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. William Grant was born in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 12. In 1859 at age 21, he married Harriet Foster. He migrated to Utah in 1866 and settled in American Fork. He died in 1916 at age 78.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography Robert Dansie Sr. and wives, Charlotte Rudland and Jane Wilcox

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340579]
Identifier: MSS 2485
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of typewritten biographies. Robert Dansie, Sr., was born in England in 1825. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah, settled in American Fork, and died in 1896. Charlotte Rudland Dansie was born in 1829 in England and died in Wyoming on the way to Utah in 1862. Jane Wilcox Dansie was born in England and married Robert Dansie in 1862

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography William Smith Robinson, pioneer : came to Utah Oct. 28, 1849 in Ezra T. Benson Company

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340751]
Identifier: MSS 2492
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. William Smith Robinson was born in 1840 in England and died in 1936. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went to Nauvoo, Illiinois, and migrated to Utah in 1849. Most of the biography is a word-for-word transcription of interviews of Robinson by Seastrand. Robinson talks about coming to Utah and about his life in American Fork.

Dates: 1935

A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227650519]
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates: Approximately 1895